Though it’s currently unseasonably cool here in Vancouver, today is still the first full day of summer and that’s worth celebrating! The days are at their longest, meaning there is extra time for writing. So whether you’re working on a...
This year we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of Paperblanks, but our story begins even earlier than that. Paperblanks is a part of the Hartley & Marks family, a publishing and design company whose origins lie in an old British...
Our Writing Wednesday series is all about bringing you the best possible writing advice we can. But we know that we aren’t the only resource out there, and so today we want to take the opportunity to showcase some other online...
Establishing a new habit can be hard. Whether you really want to get into knitting, going to the gym or – yes – journalling, finding time for it in your busy schedule can be a challenge. New hobbies also suffer from...
This year we are celebrating Paperblanks’ 25th anniversary, but our journey began long before that first journal collection in 1992. Our story begins with the 1972 founding of Cloudburst Press in an old log cabin in the mountains of British Columbia,...
One of the most important parts of writing for an audience is the editing. If you’re composing something just for yourself, who cares if anyone else can make sense of it? But if you want your work to be appreciated by...
This year marks the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, and people around the world are paying tribute to Martin Luther (1483–1546), one of Germany’s most heralded sons. Legend has it that on October 31, 1517, Luther nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to the...
Spring cleaning is all about taking a look at what you’ve gotten used to (that mess of clothes in the back of your closet, the layer of dust in those hard-to-reach places) and seeing how you can make things better....
We’ve always loved to travel here at Paperblanks and our enthusiasm for visiting new places has been shown in our #PaperblanksTraveller series. From our first post in October 2012 through the end of 2015, this series spotlighted snapshots of the...
If you have walked past a shop sign and cringed at an unnecessary apostrophe, you’re not alone. But have you ever wished you could take things one step further and actually correct the punctuation problem? Meet the “Grammar Vigilante” of...